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...donation agencies, which help infertile couples find egg donors, have recently barraged college and university newspapers with requests for donated eggs. Demand for donated eggs has driven up prices and caused a dramatic leap in compensation for Ivy League donors. Although no concrete numbers are available, Ivy League applicants are a small minority of all egg donors. Donor matching agencies say graduate students are much more likely to donate, making undergrad eggs all the more desired...
Foodies Gone Wild Want to take a favorite baked treat from your kitchen to the supermarket aisle? Here's what you can learn from those who are making the leap...
...hearts. Earlier this year, Yao signed a deal with McDonald's, which had dropped its previous spokesman, Kobe Bryant. Kobe was supposed to be the next Jordan. Turns out the new Michael is a man named Ming. --By BROOK LARMER, author of a forthcoming book on China's great leap...
Hotels across the country were fully booked last month and are warning of an acute room shortage. In Udaipur, the general manager of the famed $400-a-night Lake Palace Hotel, Peter Whyne, says this year's bookings have taken a quantum leap. "The music, the food, the fashion, Incredible India, the IT industry--it all adds up and generates a curiosity and gets India into people's consciousness," he says. "People are riding that all the way here." Here, in this case, means India's most famous hotel, a former maharaja's palace that rises like a colossal wedding...
Harvard President Harry S. Winters’s bounding leap into the world of online instant messenging has sent reverberations throughout the academic and policy worlds. Winters’s buddy list includes OralOffice69, FedReserve4Life and HBombgirl7. Conspicuously absent is hiphopprof10. Winters’s is rumored to have IM-ed hiphopprof10 with a plaintative, “R U still mad at me?” He was promptly blocked by the (still) irate prof. Guess there won’t be any friendster-ing between the two anytime soon...